Outside Of Warzone Latin America With 400 Homicides A Day Is The World's Most Violent Place

People near bullet casings at a crime scene after a shootout in the municipality of Tuzamapan, in the Mexican state of Veracruz, May 16, 2019. REUTERS/Yahir Ceballos

Business Insider: 400 murders a day: 10 reasons why Latin America is the world's most violent place

* Outside of active war zones, Latin America is the world's most violent region, despite some variations among countries there.
* No single thing explains why there's so much bloodshed, but there are several factors common throughout the region.

Latin America is home to about 8% of the world's population but has about one-third of its homicides — in 2016, that meant some 400 homicides a day, or roughly 146,000 a year. But the bloodshed is not evenly distributed.

In Mexico, the region's second most populous country, 33,753 homicide victims in 2018 set a record for the second year in a row; 17,142 victims in the first half of this year likely means 2019 will set a new mark.

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WNU Editor:I suspect that even this 400 number is a low estimate.

United Nations: More People Die From Homicide Than In Wars

Image: WHO (detail)

More People Die From Homicide Than in Wars, UN Says -- New York Times

GENEVA — Homicide and acts of personal violence kill more people than wars and are the third-leading cause of death among men aged 15 to 44, the United Nations said Wednesday in a new report.

Around the world, there were about 475,000 homicide deaths in 2012 and about six million since 2000, “making homicide a more frequent cause of death than all wars combined in this period,” the report states.

The figures are based on detailed data collection from 133 countries that together account for 88 percent of the global population. Figures are not yet available for 2013 or 2014.

The report, a collaboration of the World Health Organization, the United Nations Development Program and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, is intended to provide a base line for assessing efforts to address domestic violence, including child maltreatment; youth, intimate partner and sexual violence; and elder abuse, as well as homicides.

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More News On The United Nations Report That More People Have Died From Homicides Than In Wars

UN report on ‘interpersonal violence’ shows urgent need to scale up prevention -- UN News Centre
Global homicide rates drop, but nearly 500,000 murdered in 2012 -- AFP
Global murder rate close to 500,000: UN report -- The Local
WHO: Urgent Action Needed to Prevent Global Violence -- VOA
Homicide Rates Decrease, But Violence Still Rife – UN -- Novinite
Africa: UNODC, WHO Want More Action to Prevent Violence -- The Guardian/allAfrica.com
Homicide: men three times more likely to be victims -- WHO
UN report: homicide third leading cause of death for males -- World Bulletin

World Homicide Rates Are Still Going Up

Drug Wars: Men In Central America Face One In 50 Chance Of Murder Before 31 -- The Telegraph

The spread of drug wars means young men in Central America face a 1 in 50 chance of being murdered before reaching their 31st birthday, a UN report has claimed.

Worldwide, 468,000 people were victims of homicide in 2010, with around a third of cases in Africa and a further third in the Americas, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in its first global report on homicide on Thursday.

"In countries with high murder rates especially involving firearms, such as in Central America, 1 in 50 males aged 20 will be killed before they reach the age of 31 – several hundred times higher than in some parts of Asia," it said.

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My Comment: I suspect that this number is grossly underestimated.